Primary care: core values.

Primary care: core values. Core values in a changing world.

In 1920, the Dawson report advocated a population based approach to the organisation of health services, the allocation of resources, and the training of health care staff. It also introduced the concepts of primary and secondary levels of care and of primary care health centres. For several decades these ideas lay dormant, until medical specialisation, fragmentation of health services, and the...

Core values.

Volume 21, Number 9 " Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. It is finally here – Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.  A Scout works to pay his own way and ...

Change, challenges, and core values.

In the last issue, Trevor Ogden (2012) provided us his reflections on the accomplishments, progress, and challenges of the Annals of Occupational Hygiene under his leadership since 1997. Few would dispute that Trevor’s contributions to the journal have been many: maintaining a commitment to high quality scholarship, seeing the journal through the advent of online publication processes and Inter...

Core values and practice success.

Weighted Values and the Core